German Invasion of Poland

Britain and France declare war on Germany

Winston Churchill becomes the prime minister of Great Britain

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

1941

Operation Barbarossa

June 22 1941

Germany launches invasion on Soviets

Wannsee Conference

1942

Nazis decide on Final Solution

Mussolini's government falls

1943

D-Day

6/6/1944

On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. CONTINUED ALLIED VICTORY

Yalta Conference

February 1945

The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin